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Our House by Louise Candlish #bookreview #newrelease #louisecandlish #thenavireview

August 12, 2018

Hardcover, 416 pages Published August 7th 2018 by Berkley (first published April 5th 2018) On a bright January morning in the London suburbs, a family moves into the house they’ve just bought in Trinity Avenue. Nothing strange about that. Except it is your house. And you didn’t sell it. When Fiona Lawson comes home to find strangers … More Our House by Louise Candlish #bookreview #newrelease #louisecandlish #thenavireview

The Sellout by Paul Beatty

January 24, 2018

Paperback, 289 pages Published March 1st 2016 by Picador (first published March 3rd 2015) The Sellout is the first book by an American author to win the UK’s prestigious Man Booker Prize. A biting satire about a young man’s isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, Paul Beatty’s The Sellout showcases … More The Sellout by Paul Beatty

Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

December 11, 2017

Paperback, 248 pages Published October 3rd 2017 by Graywolf Press In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all her … More Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

Incest by Christine Angot

September 26, 2017

Paperback Expected publication: November 7th 2017 by Archipelago Books (first published November 18th 1999) A daring novel that made Christine Angot one of the most controversial figures in contemporary France recounts the narrator’s incestuous relationship with her father. Tess Lewis’s forceful translation brings into English this audacious novel of taboo. The narrator is falling out from … More Incest by Christine Angot

Seven Days of Us by Francesca Hornak

September 14, 2017

Hardcover, 368 pages Expected publication: October 17th 2017 by Berkley Books A warm, wry, sharply observed debut novel about what happens when a family is forced to spend a week together in quarantine over the holidays… It’s Christmas, and for the first time in years the entire Birch family will be under one roof. Even Emma … More Seven Days of Us by Francesca Hornak

Ladivine by Marie NDiaye

August 10, 2016

Hardcover, 288 pages Published April 26th 2016 by Knopf (first published February 14th 2013) So sorry, I couldn’t even finish this one before putting it down, which is extremely extremely rare for me!, because the word that kept popping into my head was overwrought, Overwrought, OVERWROUGHT! It seemed like NDiaye was trying way too hard … More Ladivine by Marie NDiaye

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